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How to find the package which installed a file

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:25:35 +0000

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then the following procedure using “pkgchk” should help.

Let’s look at the “which” utility in Solaris and find which package installed the file.

The file path for which is /usr/bin/which

# which which
/usr/bin/which

To find the package which installed it use the “pkgchk” command with the “-l” “and -p” options and the full file path of the file as follows,

# pkgchk -l -p /usr/bin/which
Pathname: /usr/bin/which
Type: regular file
Expected mode: 0555
Expected owner: root
Expected group: bin
Expected file size (bytes): 1288
Expected sum(1) of contents: 25204
Expected last modification: Jan 21 23:32:39 2005
Referenced by the following packages:
SUNWcsu

You can see that the which utility is installed by the package “SUNWcsu”.

How to find files,directories,path,executables for packages

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:02:55 +0000

Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.

Here, on Sun Solaris 10, I know I’ve installed wget package and don’t have a clue where the files have gone into. Let’s start with finding the package name.

solaris10# pkginfo -l | grep wget
   PKGINST: SUNWwgetr
      NAME: GNU wget – utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (root)
      DESC: GNU wget – a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (root components) 1.9.1
   PKGINST: SUNWwgetu
      NAME: wget – GNU wget
      DESC: GNU wget – a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (Usr) 1.9.1

Now, that will help you find the package name. Here SUNWwgetu

# pkginfo -l SUNWwgetu
   PKGINST: SUNWwgetu
      NAME: wget – GNU wget
CATEGORY: system
      ARCH: i386
   VERSION: 11.10.0,REV=2005.01.08.01.09
   BASEDIR: /
    VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC: GNU wget – a utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web (Usr) 1.9.1
    PSTAMP: sfw10-x20050108014615
INSTDATE: Mar 20 2007 14:38
   HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS: completely installed
     FILES:        4 installed pathnames
                   3 shared pathnames
                   3 directories
                   1 executables
                 338 blocks used (approx)

That gives you a more detailed insight on the package. If you look at the last part of the output, it displays the number of files, directories, paths installed and the number of executables installed.

To find the files installed

# pkgchk -v SUNWwgetu
/usr
/usr/sfw
/usr/sfw/bin
/usr/sfw/bin/wget

This will give details of the package files, directories, paths and executable installed. For wget the executable is in /usr/sfw/bin/

This should help!

Install & Run Sun VTS in Solaris 10 for hardware & Stress test

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:41:23 +0000

In my previous write up here, I wrote a brief description of the Sun VTS (Validation and Test Suite) which can help one to run tests on any Sun Supported hardware and hardware components and report the health status and identify faulty devices. Now, lets get installing and run Sun VTS in Solaris 10.

Download the most recent stable version of SUNWvts (SUNWvts6.4ps2 at the time of writing this article) for SPARC/x86 platforms from here

NOTE: Requires Sunsolve login to download.

Sun VTS requires the following packages installed to run properly.

Core SunVTS Framework

SUNWvts_VTS6.4ps2_sparc.tar.Z (SPARC)

SUNWvts_VTS6.4ps2_x86.tar.Z (x86)

Sun VTS Tests

SUNWvtsts_VTS6.4ps2_sparc.tar.Z (SPARC)

SUNWvtsts_VTS6.4ps2_x86.tar.Z (x86)

SunVTS Framework Configuration Files in Root partition (Optional/Recommended)

SUNWvtsr_VTS6.4ps2_sparc.tar.Z

SUNWvtsr_VTS6.4ps2_x86.tar.Z

Sun VTS Man Pages (Optional)
SUNWvtsmn_VTS6.4ps1_sparc.tar.Z (SPARC)

SUNWvtsmn_VTS6.4ps1_x86.tar.Z (x86)

Prior to installation, it is important that any previous version of the above mentioned Sun VTS packages are removed.

To check if previous versions are installed

solaris10# pkginfo -l | grep -i vts

If found uninstall them before proceeding with the procedure

solaris10# pkgrm SUNWvts SUNWvtsr SUNWvtsts SUNWvtsmn

Download and install the latest revision of Microtasking libraries (libmtsk) patch for Solaris 10 from the following Sun Solve website:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=patchpage

Solaris 10 SPARC – 120753 (120753-05)

Solaris 10 x86 – 120754 (120754-05)

Download unzip and install the patch:

SPARC

solaris10# unzip 120753-05.zip

solaris10# patchadd 120753-05

x86

solaris10# unzip 120754-05.zip

solaris10# patchadd 120754-05

Now, lets get installing the Sun VTS packages.

Install SunVTS Core Framework (SPARC & x86)

solaris10#pkgadd -d . SUNWvts

That installs the required Sun VTS Core Framework package.

Install the rest of the SunVTS packages
(SunVTS Tests,config files in root & Man pages)

solaris10# pkgadd -d . SUNWvtsts SUNWvtsr SUNWvtsmn

That completes the Sun VTS package installation.

Enable the rstatd daemon

rstatd daemon is disabled by default in Solaris 10.

solaris10# svcadm enable rstatd

Export Display to your PC (GUI only)

solaris10# export DISPLAY 192.168.0.2:0

Start Sun VTS

solaris10# /opt/SUNWvts/bin/sunvts &

This should start the Sun VTS software and export GUI to your PC (if display not exported then runs tty user interface on the terminal). Sun VTS will discover devices and list available tests for your server with dezcriptive information on the server.